How have these people and advocacy groups become legitimized? Perhaps the same way that OPB/NPR/PBS remain legitimized?
I've just cut/pasted/and googled the beneficiaries names and their outfits. Yikes! doesn't quite catch the impact they made upon me. I had hopes with Brittiny Rain as it conjured a French Lieutenant's Woman vision Of Lyme Regis or Polansky's Tess, all North Atlantic afflicted stormy beauty. But, no.
By that time in my reading the moniker Blue Valentine called forth a Lynchian literalist image of Harry Lime, all fruit with mildewed fur. Val did kind of fill out that expectation
You have a high overdose rate because of prohibition. Think about it. Alcohol is legal and there are 1) millions of functional alcoholics and 2) a huge industry to treat them. Up until the fentanyl flooding in, the other drug with functional addicts were heroin. Seriously, think about this. No crack or meth functionals. So, why do you care unless you want alcohol illegal? No addiction is good, but these are personal choices. Make this stuff legal and get the killer fentanyl out of the mix. There were people dying from illegal alcohol back in prohibition days, my grandfather told me about people drinking Bay Rum cologne. The overdose deaths we are seeing today are a direct result of the prohibition.
People are still drinking bay rum and sterno and vanilla extract. How are you going to get fentanyl out of the mix? Our high overdose rate is caused by prohibition?
One of the wisest observations made about drug use was in 1972 in the book “Licit and Illicit Drugs” by Edward M. Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports:
“A nation that has not learned to keep away from some drugs and to use others wisely cannot be taught those essential lessons merely by repealing drug laws.”
We have not learned. Worse, we have a media and popular culture that promotes, praises and accommodates drug use. Look at all the creative people who use drugs!
It is possible, though, to change society’s attitudes. For example, nobody thinks driving drunk is funny. Some drugs need to become uncool. What it will probably take is a new generation that equates wanton drug use with something an older generation did.
Measure 110 may be one of the worst disasters in recent political history. Of course the DC-based Drug Policy Alliance outspent those of us opposed this about 50 to 1, but the whole initiative was a fraud. It functionally legalized meth, cocaine, and oxycodone and by extension also legalized heroin and fentanyl (the latter two are technically not covered, but are impossible to detect apart from lab testing).
The so-called "oversight" board is a hand-picked group of pro-drug groupies, notably including the very articulate Megan Godvin, who did federal prison time for providing a fatal dose of heroin to a pal.
Oregon already has the worst overdose rate in the nation and the lowest availability of meaningful recovery programs.
How have these people and advocacy groups become legitimized? Perhaps the same way that OPB/NPR/PBS remain legitimized?
I've just cut/pasted/and googled the beneficiaries names and their outfits. Yikes! doesn't quite catch the impact they made upon me. I had hopes with Brittiny Rain as it conjured a French Lieutenant's Woman vision Of Lyme Regis or Polansky's Tess, all North Atlantic afflicted stormy beauty. But, no.
By that time in my reading the moniker Blue Valentine called forth a Lynchian literalist image of Harry Lime, all fruit with mildewed fur. Val did kind of fill out that expectation
You have a high overdose rate because of prohibition. Think about it. Alcohol is legal and there are 1) millions of functional alcoholics and 2) a huge industry to treat them. Up until the fentanyl flooding in, the other drug with functional addicts were heroin. Seriously, think about this. No crack or meth functionals. So, why do you care unless you want alcohol illegal? No addiction is good, but these are personal choices. Make this stuff legal and get the killer fentanyl out of the mix. There were people dying from illegal alcohol back in prohibition days, my grandfather told me about people drinking Bay Rum cologne. The overdose deaths we are seeing today are a direct result of the prohibition.
People are still drinking bay rum and sterno and vanilla extract. How are you going to get fentanyl out of the mix? Our high overdose rate is caused by prohibition?
One of the wisest observations made about drug use was in 1972 in the book “Licit and Illicit Drugs” by Edward M. Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports:
“A nation that has not learned to keep away from some drugs and to use others wisely cannot be taught those essential lessons merely by repealing drug laws.”
We have not learned. Worse, we have a media and popular culture that promotes, praises and accommodates drug use. Look at all the creative people who use drugs!
It is possible, though, to change society’s attitudes. For example, nobody thinks driving drunk is funny. Some drugs need to become uncool. What it will probably take is a new generation that equates wanton drug use with something an older generation did.
That second statement is as sound an observation as I have read anywhere on any topic.
Measure 110 may be one of the worst disasters in recent political history. Of course the DC-based Drug Policy Alliance outspent those of us opposed this about 50 to 1, but the whole initiative was a fraud. It functionally legalized meth, cocaine, and oxycodone and by extension also legalized heroin and fentanyl (the latter two are technically not covered, but are impossible to detect apart from lab testing).
The so-called "oversight" board is a hand-picked group of pro-drug groupies, notably including the very articulate Megan Godvin, who did federal prison time for providing a fatal dose of heroin to a pal.
Oregon already has the worst overdose rate in the nation and the lowest availability of meaningful recovery programs.